The Media in Ghana 2015 participants had the amazing opportunity to work with the Accra-based NGO, Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights. The 15 of us formed teams to create a bank of images, graphic designs, and multimedia projects that captured stories and helped ARHR with advocacy. Once divided into teams, Shirley Chan and I stationed at Read More …
Family Planning brochure: Contraception Information brochure: Universal Health Coverage brochure:
ARHR’s Executive Director Vicky Okine shares ARHR’s central mission in this piece for Ghana’s MetroTV.
At ARHR, we have partnered with MamaYe! Ghana to ensure local hospitals are maintaining the highest standard of care.
We are working to ensure rural clinics maintain the highest standard of maternal care. Visit the Mater Ecclesiae Clinic in Volta to witness the change ARHR is making in local communities.
We are promoters, defenders and protectors of rights of women and their newborns, and adolescents to the best quality of health care through evidence based advocacy on gaps between policy and practice in the Ghanaian health system. We seek to empower communities to hold government accountable for responsive and equitable health care delivery (or health Read More …
Alongside exploring Ghana, we are here to intern and work with a reproductive advocacy group, ARHR. Today, I took a break from my internship at Emerge to go interview the head maternity surgeon at a local hospital. A group last week went and interviewed a hospital in the Volta Region. The hospital is overpopulated and Read More …
Last week, a few of us went to the Volta region in central Ghana to document conditions at two local hospitals, the Ho Municipal Hospital and the Mater Ecclesiae Clinic. This is a story I wrote for the Public Agenda about the experience: Although scorecards from hospitals such as the Ho Municipal Hospital and the Read More …
Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) is a Ghanaian NGO that advocates for gender equality, community empowerment, and reproductive health rights. The Media in Ghana group has formed teams to create a bank of images, graphic designs, and multimedia projects to capture stories and help ARHR with advocacy. These projects, along with a social media Read More …